Abstract
The utterance is the largest recognized prosodic unit, roughly equivalent to a sentence in syntax.
The utterance (υ) is the largest recognized unit of prosody (Nespor and Vogel 1986:221-248) and is usually bordered on either side by silence. Part of the syntax-phonology interface, it tends to correspond with the syntactic notion sentence (simple, complex, or compound), but often consists of less (Selkirk 1980; Nespor and Vogel 1986:221-223), as the beginning of Plato’s Crito (43a) illustrates. The dialogue begins with two u…